Florida Keys Hemidactylus ID

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Mike VanValen
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Florida Keys Hemidactylus ID

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sent to me for ID.

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Re: Florida Keys Hemidactylium ID

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Dang weird looking salamanders, might be Hemidactylus.
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Sam Sweet wrote:Dang weird looking salamanders, might be Hemidactylus.
:lol: thank you for catching that! Damn Florida four-toed salamanders!
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Re: Florida Keys Hemidactylus ID

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First two are H. mabouia, last is H. garnotii.

Edit: stupid iPhone, thought it was certainly garnotii at first glance. Hard to tell after zooming, but still leaning garnotii.
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I felt certain the last is garnotii. Was leaning towards mabouia on the first two, as umop stated, but I only feel sure about the last one.

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Re: Florida Keys Hemidactylus ID

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First two are H. mabouia, last is H. garnotii.
3rd the motion.
Last one seems to have the lights spots you see on H. garnottii often.

Just as a reminder, this was a nice post of our Jake Scott in 2012.

http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... =2&t=12818
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Re: Florida Keys Hemidactylus ID

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What the others have said. I'm 100% confident on the mabouia, and I trust the judgement of the others on the garnotti.
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